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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324087#Comment_324087Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:45:18 -0600Horrible Warning SiYour net foragings. The scum which accumulates on the surface of your inbox. The froth on the drunken face of the world. The gorgeous spraint of the massmind. Bring it all hither.

(Note that news stories and Things Of Interest now have a separate home in the “NewStrange” thread. This right here is where we present anything that would be fundamentally valueless, if it weren’t so clearly brilliant.)

If there is a hell, and Ben Kingsley goes there, all it will consist of is a chair with straps, facing a TV and Ben Kingsley will be forced to watch that Uwe Boll POS for the rest of eternity, right next to Raul Julia watching himself as M. Bison. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324125#Comment_324125Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:30:54 -0600RenThingYeah, but he could've left off with Gomez Adams. Instead, we get to watch him get his ass kicked by Van Damme. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324144#Comment_324144Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:50:27 -0600RenThingNo.

Now, if you said Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, or Dolph Lungren (I know his movies are shite but I've got a bright spot in my heart for a guy who knows exactly where he's supposed to be), then we'd be talking. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324149#Comment_324149Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:24:15 -0600andyconBest part about Lundgren is that he is probably smarter than all of us here (he has a master's degree in chemical engineering and was the top of his class) but decided to give that up to do bad ass stuff for the rest of his life. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324150#Comment_324150Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:28:52 -0600RenThingI can't remember where but I've heard the man speak and he does sound incredibly intelligent. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324155#Comment_324155Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:54:57 -0600StefanJ"Breaking Bad: Canada. Just a guy getting free cancer treatment" ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324191#Comment_324191Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:18:50 -0600lampcommanderArby's Now Charging $2.99 To Let Customers Go Behind Counter, Grab Handfuls Of Roast Beef

"Or why not try our Cheesy Grab-N-Go Meal Deal for just 75 cents more, and we'll let you use one of your hands to scoop as much melted cheese as you'd like from our Bottomless Cheddar Trough," Milne continued. "It's that same Arby's taste you love, but piled high in your own two hands."

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324203#Comment_324203Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:25:14 -0600D.J.I'm a bit late to this, but Street Fighter: The Movie is a glorious masterpiece. Comparing it to a Uwe Boll film is blasphemy.

Australian artist Ben Smith’s “The Influence. Leonard Cohen consoles Nick Cave” depicts, with both wit and affection, the two melancholic bards as guru and student, father and son, ventriloquist and dummy, sharing the blood of Jesus and the fruit of knowledge.

7. Using creepy cute onomatopoeic words "Even though this guy was a total hotty, he kept saying 'Nom Nom' while chewing his food and any passionate feelings I had vanished," said a teenage female. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324417#Comment_324417Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:21:47 -0600FlabyoBrooker has put it on the 'official' C4 youtube thingy now. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324420#Comment_324420Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:11:57 -0600FoamheadAchill-henge: A monument that divides Ireland

Ireland has plenty of ancient settlements and monuments. But on a visit to Achill Island, off the far west coast - up a mountain and in the middle of a bog - sits a different kind of monument that locals are calling Achill-henge. Achill Island is about as far west in Europe as you can go: "From here it's next stop New York."

(Also the CGI of "Horton Hears a Who" . . . yeah, there are plenty of Dr. Seuss cartoons, but the CGIzation of the familiar characters made it the stuff of dreams I had as a kid.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324543#Comment_324543Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:01:24 -0600Oxbrow
Adam Baldwin? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324551#Comment_324551Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:30:37 -0600dnewling "A new survey reported that 40 percent of people think it's a good idea to get engaged on Valentines Day. The other 60 percent were men." -Conan O'Brien

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I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

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An archaeologist was digging in the Negev Desert in Israel and came upon a casket containing a mummy, a rather rare occurrence in Israel, to say the least.

After examining it, he called the curator of the Israel museum in Jerusalem.

"I've just discovered a 3,000 year old mummy of a man who died of heart failure!" the excited scientist exclaimed.

To which the curator replied, "Bring him in. We'll check it out."

A week later, the amazed curator called the archaeologist. "You were right about both the mummy's age and cause of death. How in the world did you know?"

"Easy. There was a piece of paper in his hand that said, '10,000 Shekels on Goliath.'"

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A young Nun who worked for a local home health care agency was out making her rounds when she ran out of gas. As luck would have it, there was a gas station just one block away. She walked to the station to borrow a can with enough gas to start the car and drive to the station for a fill up.

The attendant regretfully told her that the only gas can he loaned had just been loaned out, but if she would care to wait he was sure it would be back shortly. Since the nun was on her way to see a patient, she decided not to wait and walked back to her car.

After looking through her car for something to carry to the station to fill with gas, she spotted a bedpan she was taking to the patient. Always resourceful, she carried it to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried it back to her car.

As she was pouring the gas into the tank of her car, two men watched her from across the street. One of them turned to the other and said, "I know that the Lord turned water into wine, but if that car starts, I'm going to church every Sunday for the rest of my life."

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If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,

If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,

If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,

If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,

If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without alcohol,

If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, ...Then You Are Probably

The Family Dog!

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That was a lovely story and I have one of my own that might make you smile too. Our 6year old grandson has just finished prep and although he can spell a lot of words correctly he often gets the right letters but in the wrong order. Consequently his Christmas wish list began, "Dear Satan,..." One for his 21st don't you think?

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Harry is at his local discussing nicknames with his mates---George has started calling his wife â€œHarvey Normanâ€ he says..

Why is that??? â€œNo interest for 18 monthsâ€

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There were two rednecks walking toward each other down the street. One of them was carrying a sack. When they met up, the other redneck asked, "Whatcha got in that there sack?"

The redneck with the sack replied, "Just some chickens." The other redneck said, "If I guess how many chickens are in that there sack, can I have one?"

The redneck with he sack answered, "I'll give ya both of them if you get it right."

So, the other redneck thought and thought, and he finally said, "Five?"

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Wife comes home late at night and quietly opens the door to her bedroom.

From under the blanket she sees four legs instead of two.

She reaches for a Baseball Bat and starts hitting the blanket as hard as she can. Once she's done, she goes to the kitchen to have a drink.

As she enters, she sees her husband there, reading a magazine.

"Hi Darling", he says, "Your parents have come to visit us, so l let them stay in our bedroom. Hope you said Hello to them.." ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=324552#Comment_324552Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:31:08 -0600dnewling Three women go down to Mexico one night to celebrate college graduation. They got drunk, and woke up in jail, only to find that they are to be executed in the morning, though none of them can remember what they did the night before.

The first one, a redhead, is strapped in the electric chair and is asked if she has any last words. She says, "I just graduated from Trinity Bible College and believe in the almighty power of God to intervene on the behalf of the innocent." They throw the switch and nothing happens. They all immediately fall to the floor on their knees, beg for forgiveness, and release her.

The second one, a brunette, is strapped in and gives her last words. "I just graduated from the University of Kentucky School of Law, and I believe in the power of Justice to intervene on the behalf of the innocent." They throw the switch and again, nothing happens. Again, they all immediately fall to their knees, beg for forgiveness, and release her.

The last one, a blonde (you knew it), is strapped in and says, "Well, I'm from the University of Tennessee and just graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I'll tell ya right now, ya'll ain't gonna electrocute nobody if you don't plug that thing in."

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A backwoodsman was making his first visit to a city hospital where his teenage son was about to have an operation. Watching the doctor's every move, he asked, "What's that?"

The doctor explained, "This is an anesthetic. After he gets this he won't know a thing."

Cassetteboy's back! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325034#Comment_325034Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:35:27 -0600Ben Gwalchmai@Sobreiro & Jay Kay I found that on FB with the title "Release Your Inner Tiger" I think, considering the terrible job, someone should make it a t-shirt. ]]>
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one of the earliest pictures / stories I linked to on the nascent Weaponizer site! I should go back to writing Jesus Christ's Internet Digest, that was loads of fun... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325049#Comment_325049Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:33:41 -0600Greasemonkey@Magnus - I'm happy in my addiction-free obscurity :-D ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325063#Comment_325063Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:06:11 -0600Purple WyrmHere's the wikipedia page anyway. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325065#Comment_325065Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:27:09 -0600twentythoughts
Bird photos taken from a floating cabin. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325080#Comment_325080Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:36:24 -0600Fishelle
I'm gonna second Purple Wyrm's wiki entry there. It's quite accurate, really. Also, as far as I know, posthumous baptisms of holocaust victims don't happen anymore. And yes, the dead person does choose to accept or reject it.I'm just going to add, I'd think it would be obvious that where someone goes in the afterlife is based on a lot more than baptism, so if someone obviously deserves to go to hell, being baptized won't really change that (regarding Hitler and whatnot). It's all about everyone having the same chances, and if you believe that being baptized is an absolute requirement, then everyone ought to have that chance. Maybe it is silly or crazy, but I quite like being baptized for dead people. I've been doing it since I was 12 and won't be stopping any time soon. (I don't think being gay is a choice, though.) ]]>
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Brookie and her mean green 6.8 mm AR-15:

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325105#Comment_325105Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:48:48 -0600VornaskottiFair enough. As a somewhat religious person myself, and aware that I'm probably being somewhat offensive now, I find that practice deeply silly and more than borderline offending. Not something that should be banned or anything, mind you, but it's definitely a target for snarky criticism like the previous. I know that the idea of someone re-baptising me after I'm dead annoys the crap out of me, not that I believe I'd be saying anything about it, but you know... It's the thing about freedom of religion and freedom from religion. People can have their faith and practice it, as long as it stays in their lot and house. This stuff steps over the line. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325124#Comment_325124Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:24:02 -0600Fishelle
Same way anyone says no to anything, I figure. We don't know, and don't claim to know, whether someone accepts or rejects something in the afterlife. The only record kept is that the baptism's been done for that person. They don't go in with the normal membership records of living people, and aren't considered Mormons. Relative is a big term, and I know lots of people that try to get every possible person in their ancestral line. And people can find the names of relatives and let other people be baptized for them, which allows for people like me to just go to the temple and not have to do a bunch of genealogy beforehand. So to answer your question, yeah.@VornaskottiI haven't ever really understood why it would offend someone if they think it's nonsense, because then it doesn't really matter, does it? If it's not true, it's just a bunch of silly people saying dead people's names briefly in a ceremony that doesn't really matter to anyone but them. But I guess I understand a little better now. Sorry it bothers you. If it's any comfort, no one will ever be a Mormon unless they want to be, dead or not. And if you're not baptized while living, you wouldn't ever be considered a Mormon by living people, really.

I haven't ever really understood why it would offend someone if they think it's nonsense, because then it doesn't really matter, does it?

I know you are done talking about it, but I'd ask you to consider how uncomfortable you are made by people questioning the appropriateness of your convictions with regard to this practice. That is what it feels like when someone devalues your core beliefs. That is what you are doing when you posthumously "baptize" people. You are basically saying the whole lived adult life of a human being is less worthy of consideration than the small bit of personal satisfaction you get from including their name on a list of potential inductees into the Mormon concept of heaven. It is profoundly insulting.

One of the best hopes a person can have is that they are remembered well for who they were. I can tell you as a non-Mormon that I for one, and I am willing to bet that most non-Mormons who have any sort of convictions about the nature of being, would be deeply, deeply offended to have you coming along after our ability to disagree is silenced and inducting us, even provisionally, into your faith.

I do think it is silly and ultimately meaningless. I also find it very offensive. Those two things are not mutually exclusive reactions. No one can or should stop you from doing it, as it causes no actual harm to anyone, any more than me standing on the street and declaring passersby to be baptized Catholics would. But it would sure be a good reason for a lot of people to correctly agree that I was being a self-aggrandizing and obnoxious jerk. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325175#Comment_325175Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:03:09 -0600johnjonesAs a Christian, I tend to apply Christian doctrine to these situations. Specifically, I apply Matthew 7:12 "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." So, would you want someone who is Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Catholic, what have you, "baptizing" you as one of their faith? I'm guessing that no, you would not. I get it. Baptizing the dead is a essentially a gesture of compassion and generosity. It's a way to "save the unsaveable." However, to me it seems to violate the free choices that the dead made in life, so I disagree with the practice. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325177#Comment_325177Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:57:38 -0600Ben Gwalchmai

From the mind of Hannah Richards ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325184#Comment_325184Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:37:17 -0600shannon.gilly.3As a recovering fundamentalist evangelical protestant Christian who grew up in a mixed Catholic/Southern Baptist household, I can see where Fishelle is coming from on this. it's a different concept of death and eternity. from what is considered the "mainline" Christian viewpoint, there's no time gap between death and eternity. you kick it, coroner calls you a corpse, you head to heaven, hell, or purgatory, based entirely on decisions made during your lifetime (unless you're in the Calvinist group, then it doesn't really matter, since everything is preordained, your actions in life were a reflection of God's predetermined plan and you end up where God intended you to go). The LDS concept of death has a time gap, wherein souls have left their physical shells, but have yet to move on to eternity. They're dead, but there's still choices to be made. One could theoretically, post mortem, realize that the Mormons got it right and convert, so to speak. So the church, hoping to aid those who might have died before making up their minds or who found enlightenment in the between time, came up with a ritual to address the needs of those who've left. In practice, it's little different from the liturgical protestant and orthodox practice of baptizing infants, and in my mind, no more or less offensive. The idea on the liturgical Christian side of the equation is "well, what if they die before they get old enough to accept these beliefs themselves? should we just let them burn in eternity due to their innate sinfulness? No! Let's baptize them just in case."For the Mormons, baptism is just as vital to a person's ability to enter heaven, so rather than risk preventing a soul from getting the best outcome in eternity, they came up with something that solves that problem, just like Christians who moved baptism from being a conscious adult action to something done to infants as early as possible.

As for being offended: guys, take a long, hard look at this thread. its very existence would probably constitute a grave offense to most of the people Fishelle grew up with. I know that many of my childhood and college friends would be at an utter loss for words for about thirty seconds before they started screaming about how offensive every last entry is (except, of course, the entries downing the Mormon faith; they're usually all about demeaning that "cult," and would gleefully add all sorts of half baked facts in for fun), and then would promptly start collecting pitchforks and funding republican super PACS to ensure that the evil would be promptly stomped out. that flies like a rock around here people: if it offends you, find out why and learn from it. there's probably something useful to be gleaned.

Having said all that, perhaps we take Fishelle's cue about how she was done talking about it and drop the subject before the urethral attack maggots show up. to that end, I give you music from one of my favorite local bands:and not loud enough, but them again: ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325188#Comment_325188Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:26:43 -0600Horrible Warning SiReligious debate stops here. I appreciate you're all playing very nice and it's not about to turn into flamey-wamey shame, nonetheless. This ain't the place, take it elsewhere.

(15 out of 24 on that UK test..) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325196#Comment_325196Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:07:59 -0600Bombus HortorusFWIW, the last time I did that though I scored so low I'm surprised I'm not in Gitmo now... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325198#Comment_325198Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:11:51 -0600badbearHoly crap that's difficult. No wonder my friend studied for the exam so hard. I got 11 out of 24! 11! AND I suspect that is mostly by luck rather than actual judgement. I'm not sure how I manage to function in this country with so little knowledge of it... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325199#Comment_325199Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:15:18 -0600AtomicSloth
Two of the questions have correct answer slots that dont even appear on the page. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325201#Comment_325201Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:36:00 -0600johnjones
Questions answered correctly: 9 out of 24 (38%)

Questions answered correctly: 15 out of 24 (63%)(Wonder if we can somehow make this test part of the EDL or BNP membership application?) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325206#Comment_325206Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:16:52 -0600oscillateur
Seriously, is this supposed to mean anything ? I have to admit that I answered a few questions by checking the possible answers and choosing the one that seemed more likely to be the "good one" (i.e. kind of middle ground). ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325212#Comment_325212Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:46:34 -0600lampcommanderThis video may not beat it, but I would say it goes in the same general category: ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325218#Comment_325218Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:38:38 -0600Sobreiro
Garfield/E.T. mashup by Charles Sanford Forsman (who also did that brilliant Peanuts/JAWS one)

Hilarious parody of Siri commercial making the rounds here Stateside. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325265#Comment_325265Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:10:47 -0600D.J.I was about to say that I had read that awhile back, and it was pretty interesting. It felt like he covered his most relevant interactions with Dahmer in that book, so I'm not sure how a more fleshed-out version will go, but I'll check it out. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325300#Comment_325300Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:42:33 -0600twentythoughtsGod smiles upon us all this day. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325306#Comment_325306Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:15:45 -0600Jay Kay ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325328#Comment_325328Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:18:07 -0600icelandbob
THIS GOES ON FOREVER!

Below are so so many examples of fallen dreams. Each row is all of the (present) members of one year's given category (I'm only using actors and actresses here). On far right, I've included the reaction of the winners just for good measure. Have fun laughing at their pain!

And now, a .gif of dinosaur's penis fighting. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325624#Comment_325624Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:57:07 -0600Jay Kay
It was too bad that she had come with Tom, she thought. It would be fun to strip off naked and finger-fuck herself right there in the barn, with all those horny men pumping their pricks around her. But she knew that prudish Tom would not approve.

Girl, he said yes to going with you to a fucking DONKEY SHOW, he's the exact opposite of a prude. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325630#Comment_325630Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:28:39 -0600richwilsonBut if only it was... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325631#Comment_325631Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:29:39 -0600celan
Peter Weyland at TED2023: I will change the world ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325637#Comment_325637Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:26:24 -0600Wood
I capture passion, I capture a moment.

As i mused then, I am unsure whether this is a Chris Morris-esque pisstake, or just a fine example of our present's post-irony condition..

[edited to add, It has been confirmed as a hoax] ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325642#Comment_325642Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:02:04 -0600keyofsilence

THE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY IS HERE, STOP EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE FUCKING DOING RIGHT NOW ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325644#Comment_325644Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:30:24 -0600VornaskottiDamn, things have really changed! In the 90's whenever I wanted to see something like that, I had to paint the graphics with my Amiga 500 and get a mirror so I could watch a nerd stagger awkwardly at the same time! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325653#Comment_325653Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:32:26 -0600Oxbrow

Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.

Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.

Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets.

(via Coilhouse) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325787#Comment_325787Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:26:21 -0600lampcommanderBut it's worth it when I open it in the morning and see a bunch of awesome posts like these.

The idea that out-dated references aren't fun was pretty much disproven by most of the cartoons of the 1940's - Looney Tunes in particular. Especially if the references are mixed in with more universal humour (I don't think Family Guy will age well.) If the people behind the shows are skilled enough, references will still be funny, even if nobody gets them. At worst, they'll end up as absurdist jokes and at best, they'll tell you everything you need to know about the subject, while simultaneously making fun of it.

The worst thing about the article is that it doesn't make parallel to, but completely diverges from the Simpsons to become a hit-piece on Community. To use Community of all shows to illustrate that there's a conflict between referential humour and character-based humour is bordering on moronic. Community is the shining example of how you can use referential humour to create character-based humour and vice-versa. If you look at a running gag in the documentary episode like Troy's infatuation with Levar Burton, you don't need to have watched Star Trek: TNG, Reading Rainbow or Roots to get any of the jokes: When Troy is sitting in the bathroom singing the title song to Reading Rainbow, gear shifts into half of a reference to Star Trek and ends up turning it around to be about Troy's hero worship of a guy who was on a couple of big and small TV shows, you'll laugh anyway. Before that episode I had no idea who Levar Burton was, but it got the biggest laugh out of me all the same, because the experience it's built around is universal.

That article is a battle cry for blandness and humour so broad that it hits the mark for no one. You can use references to strengthen and nuance character jokes, and you don't need to have watched all the TV shows from the last 70 years to get it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325986#Comment_325986Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:48:47 -0600KeeperofManyNames
why someone would do that (I haven't been interested in Family Guy for a long time, personally, and internet humor seems to be more and more dependent upon self-reference) but that doesn't make it a great analysis, especially when he's complaining about, of all things, Community. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=325996#Comment_325996Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:37:26 -0600magnusisasillynameAnd now...

Through destruction, a washing machine achieves transcendence ]]>
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Hardcore Corn, the hottest site for free corn-on-corn action ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326012#Comment_326012Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:24:16 -0600Oxbrow
Simpsons article, but it was certainly well timed on a night of various geek sites pointing to the show spending 45 seconds on a couch gag remake of the Game Of Thrones title sequence in an apparently unconnected episode.

In other news, the patron saint of Dublin's heart was stolen from its cathedral, and the police who recovered pieces of the True Cross stolen last year have been called in. ]]>
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Where corn fetishism certainly comes from. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326032#Comment_326032Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:03:23 -0600ArgosAlso, for those with Pinterest, apparently pinning others' photos on pinterest is not entirely legal and the Terms & Services pinners agreed to too holds them responsible for ALL legal feels if Pinterest gets sued for a photo you re-pinned. So uhh, might wanna rething having an account if you don't want to risk some photographer suing you over a picture on pinterest. While I personally don't think there's anything wrong with posting a photo on Pinterest so long as you've credited the artist, there are artists out there who aren't okay with it. Never know when one of them will take action. ]]>
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tumblr for a while, for classic Marvel goodness. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326041#Comment_326041Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:34:12 -0600magnusisasillyname

Seriously good TED talk. A must watch for anyone who, ya know, breathes and lives on the planet. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326047#Comment_326047Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:13:47 -0600vandalhandle

Which, when your natural curiosity kicks-in and leads you to investigate further, turns out to look like this, close-up:

Then you remember you've already let the dog out...

Suppressing the northern hemisphere reaction involving hysterics about funnel-webs, red-backs and every other kill-you-as-soon-as-look-at-you creepy crawly that were thankfully isolated on the other side of the world from me, the best part of this Arachnopocalypse is the name of where it took place - Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, Australia. Which, it seems, I'm incapable of reading, thinking or saying without doing so in an Oz accent. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326129#Comment_326129Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:14:39 -0600FoamheadI really fucking hate that song, so thank you GM. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326134#Comment_326134Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:07:17 -0600FoamheadDr Who - The Goodies ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326137#Comment_326137Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:32:11 -0600FinagleDoo de doo doo do de doo dooo, doo de doo doo do de doo doo.... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326143#Comment_326143Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:08:10 -0600Lazarus99Were they escaping the floodwaters? Fuck! I would never go outside again... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326147#Comment_326147Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:17:57 -0600FoamheadHere's a link to the story: the video of the sheet of web flapping in the breeze is purdy.

Should've added this to the original post but think incessant skin-crawling distracted me a bit, sorry.

...the increase in spiders posed no danger to people - and that they should be grateful, instead of frightened. And if it is a dry summer next year, the spider population would drop back to its previous levels."The spiders don't pose any harm at all. They are not aggressive and only bite if they face a severe threat or their lives are in danger. They have a mild venom, so if they were to bite you, you would only get a bit of a headache and some local pain.

And THIS is my neighbourhood, about halfway between home and my eldest son's high school.

I didn't go to the studio today, all three bridges over the Cooks River were blocked by water over the road. It's been... moist. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326219#Comment_326219Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:05:51 -0600Foamhead
Thirty...five...feet...three...inches. Shit.

And I thought the 8'6" mark on the flood memorial obelisk across the river I'm right next to was worrying. If you can't justify a day-off work because the bridges are under water, god help you.

Delta Zulu follows Clark, a freelance reporter who will be amongst the few civilians ever allowed into a Red Zone, a lawless quarantined area that still breathes war. Clark has been embedded with a team of mercenary contractors from White Shield International, one of the thousands of Private Military Companies that travel into The Zone on a daily basis to fulfill contracts for the government, large corporations, and private individuals. Clark attempts to find a story amongst a group of forgotten soldiers in a forgotten war and gets more than he bargains for.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326248#Comment_326248Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:46:52 -0600sneak046
The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326249#Comment_326249Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:55:15 -0600lampcommander
wrong.The Definitive Kony 2012 Drinking Game.

(actually pretty funny) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326250#Comment_326250Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:55:50 -0600celan
mash-up of Super Mario Bros and Portal ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326258#Comment_326258Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:30:27 -0600Internaut"Braun’s system, described in a patent approved last month by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, is called the “Non-Lethal Weapon Mount With Modular Weapon Components.” It combines four of the most common less-lethal weapons technologies: stun guns, disabling sprays like mace, non-lethal bullets and blinding light. Users can choose from the menu of nonlethal options and unleash them solo or in painful combination in a matter of seconds."

Apparently it straps to your forearm circa Mega Man.

Link. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326310#Comment_326310Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:26:36 -0600Internaut
GOOD has an article about a study that apparently scientifically proves women are repulsed by beards. As I'm sure most of us are aware, this is not true for Whitechapelians, or for that matter, really most of the women I personally know. (It looks as if they really only focused on Samoa and New Zealand for their studies, in an effort to be "cross cultural.")

However some of the things actually published in the study are hilarious.

This beard study is wild: It's peppered with references to "the fossil record" and discusses the evolutionary purpose of lion's manes in an attempt to understand the facial hair preferences of human women. At one point, the researchers remind us that "beards do not directly improve fighting ability." In fairness, they also attempt to debunk previous scientific literature that associates men's beards "with traits such as vagrancy."

We started with four iconic ad campaigns from the 1960s and ‘70s from Alka-Seltzer, Avis, Coca-Cola and Volvo, each considered groundbreaking in its day. The advertising legends who made the original ads then came out of retirement to rethink their original “brief,” this time, using the full range of technological tools at their disposal, to reach consumers in today’s digitally connected world.

Best to read about it at the Google blog rather than the official website

I found it wonderfully interesting and inspirational. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10493&Focus=326326#Comment_326326Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:16:47 -0600Cat Vincent
Long Live The Goddam Slovakian Batman.

In Henan Province, in central China, millions of people have been tuning in every week to watch an extraordinary talk show called Interviews Before Execution, in which a reporter interviews murderers condemned to death. The show ran for just over five years, until it was abruptly axed on Friday.